Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 2 | Erm , my fear of this report is that we are actually erm , it shows to me a certain level of complacency . |
| 3 | This fascinating display holds , and reveals to you the vital spirit which eventually triumphed in 1945 . |
| 4 | Through my meanings , he opens to you a noble career , as my wife only can you enter upon it . |
| 5 | Because the object of contemplation is God himself , who opens to us the infinite possibilities of himself and of our own lives . |
| 6 | His undoubted pace is being sacrificed on an altar of greater sevens savvy elsewhere in the squad which seems to me a reasonable gambit to adopt . |
| 7 | The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion . |
| 8 | " The world constructed by the media seems to me a reasonable surrogate for " real life " , whatever that is . |
| 9 | Obviously it seems to me a good grounding for the younger horses ? |
| 10 | Now the year nineteen oh nine seems to me a curious year . |
| 11 | That seems to me a better way of spending Sundays — among my family . |
| 12 | It seems to me a definite kind of immortality both to be remembered with great affection and to give that feeling ( which I and so many friends have ) that we ca n't believe he has died . |
| 13 | erm That seems to me a little bit odd that that has to be put on twice to the erm exclusion of other programmes . |
| 14 | The two vices , he points out , are connected , for That seems to me a fitting explanation for the resolutely ‘ Implacable Malice ’ of Iago . |
| 15 | For the Institution even to contemplate withdrawing the free journal seems to me a grave injustice , particularly to senior Life Governors ( I am 78 ) … |
| 16 | Now I 've not seen this suggested , but it seems to me a fair way of doing it . |
| 17 | Drenching even a few rooms , with foam and then a chemical spray seems to me a high penalty for catching what American police forces call a perpetrator . |
| 18 | That seems to me a basic requirement of er , of all the sale of food . |
| 19 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
| 20 | ( It seems to me an odd misuse of modern theatre aesthetics to believe that asides and soliloquies are ‘ distancing ’ or ‘ alienating ’ devices : rather the opposite . ) |
| 21 | ( p. 3 ) This aim , which seems to me an obvious piece of common sense , caused uproar among many teachers of English , who feared a return to the rote-learning of the 1950s . |
| 22 | It seems to me an unfortunate coincidence , therefore , that the pharmaceutical company that provided financial support for the consensus group chose to mount a postal advertising campaign within a week of the group 's report , urging surgeons to use its particular low molecular weight heparin for venous thromboprophylaxis and citing the consensus group 's recommendations as evidence for this . |
| 23 | Using this ‘ recognition ’ to explore the positivity of how domestic relations are lived seems to me an important step beyond assertions that the academic should side with the oppressed … |
| 24 | No doubt if their theses eventually appear they will contradict my oversimplified ideas on the matter , but this seems to me an ideal place to demonstrate " event stratigraphy " . |
| 25 | One comes from perhaps the pharmaceutical and the medical profession side , and it seems to me the other side is really the public side . |
| 26 | It seems to me the only people who do persist in that phase and make something tenable out of an unsatisfied , unsettled life , are rock musicians , and rock critics . |
| 27 | It seems to me the only thing to do . ’ |
| 28 | One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords |
| 29 | To conclude , the play does give us the answers to the questions we demand from Hamlet , we understand the delay 's he makes in killing Claudius due to the nature of his thoughts , he is concerned with the future of his soul and this seems to me the central issue in Shakespeare 's Hamlet . |
| 30 | It seems to me the Freudian view takes both into account . |